Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned Ted in, at the urging of his wife, Linda Patrik, the woman who had come between them years earlier. After Ted's arrest, David was instantly lauded as a sort of moral superhero for sacrificing his beloved if troubled brother. Not surprisingly, Ted finds fault with this scenario. David's decision to turn him in, he says, was less a moral or lawful one than a way to settle a perversely complicated sibling rivalry. Beneath David's love for him, he argues, lay "a marked strain of resentment," and "jealousy over the fact that our parents valued me more...
...scenario becoming all too familiar to the floor's first-year residents, a burglar entered two unlocked suites at some point during the night and stole several wallets, leaving behind more valuable items, such as laptop computers...
...site of a large West Nile outbreak. If mosquitoes had gorged on his blood, they could have transmitted the virus to birds by biting them in turn--thus starting an infectious cycle deadly for some humans and birds, though never for the carrier Culex pipiens. It's a scenario, says Monath, that's become increasingly common in a jet-setting...
...last week several Gore officials were worried enough to talk privately of perhaps losing New Hampshire--a stunning concession at this stage--and maybe even New York. All of which leaves them counting on the back pages of the primary-season calendar. That is a far different scenario than the quick blowout they expected earlier this year when they decided not to take on Bradley at all because several key players, including Gore, thought he might drop...
...Monday three Serbs were killed by a rocket grenade attack on a marketplace in Kosovo Polje. "That unhappy scenario plays right into Milosevic?s hands," says Anastasijevic. "All he needs to do is send a few tanks to Kosovo and attack NATO forces. That would restart air strikes and put an end to any challenge. So his message to Serbs is, be good or I?ll restart the war." Four months into the peacekeeping mission, NATO appears to have lost its way politically...